Needing the ability to build tclkits on Windows from CVS head on a semi-regular basis, I finally got around to trying Pat Thoyts' instructions from the starkit mailing list [L1 ] to build my own kit. Read that reference first.
There were a couple of things that caused me grief having to do with my environment (Visual Studio 6.0, XP). Hence this page - so others do not go through the same pain.